Why do you do that? The market does not exist yet.
Because that's how you get a position on that future market.
No, that's how you die. Relevant words: "before its time". If you want to be in business, you better be satisfying demand that actually exists, or you better have deep pockets to cover your stupidity.
The problem is that they're trying to get a chunk of a small market (luxury electric sports cars)...
Actually, they're trying to get a position in a future, gigantic market where everybody, rich and poor, switches to electric. For the time being, they just need a beachhead, much like Tesla with the Roadster.
Tim Cook plays a role at Apple similar to former Monkey-in-Chief Ballmer at Microsoft: castrating it. Hard to see much wrong with that, if you don't have a one-button brain and prefer not to live in a one-button world.
The vast majority will see the limitations of 1080 instantly by displaying text, e.g., a web page. Even for movies, intentionally low-frequency in both time and spatial domain, it is just a question of how close you are to the display. As soon as you get close enough to notice the annoying dither patterns, you can't unsee them. Same thing for bigger displays, and everybody is getting bigger displays as the cost continues to fall. So safe bet: what the industry missed out on in 3D adoption, it will make up in 4K adoption. Go ahead, tell me you don't want one.
Rebooted my Linux home server the other day, it was up for 475 days and went through multiple updates in that time. Only rebooted it to install a new kernel. This is typical, actually. Linux desktop machine uptimes are usually months, laptops are only rebooted if they run out of power.
Really looks great.. wish there was a ChromeOS* vers...
That's the problem Intel has at the moment: people are looking at these things and thinking "is that like a Chromebook"? And the other problem Intel has is that the cost of the processor alone is 30%+ of the retail price. That's gotta hurt.
Moore's law has been decelerating for a long time but is far from dead. What's really surprising is how far visible light lithography has been pushed, when everybody thought EUV would be needed long ago. Now, feature size is _way_ less than the wavelength, nice trick that. Even less than EUV wavelength. Probably, EUV will be used for 5nm nodes. Nanoimprint might take over when EUV reaches its limits. This is while staying with silicon. A 1 nm transistor (gate size) has already been demonstrated, and it won't stop there.
STEM topics notably missing from top 5,000. Plate tectonics squeezes in at #4994, transistor at #4839. Probably a few more up higher, but they get vanishingly rare. At least "global warming" is ahead of Play Station 4.
Amazing... Winston Churchill (7,517,385) ahead of Justin Bieber (7,376,207). How can that be? A flickering of intelligence? Nah, must be some other explanation.
Before Eclipse became Eclipse it was called Visual Age for Java, implemented in Smalltalk, and it was a joy to use. Capable of some amazing things, like recompiling pieces of a program while running it, and have that all make sense and be natural. When rewritten in Java it became the dreary, plodding thing it is today. Not useless, but soul-sucking. Implementation language had something to do with it? Funny how everything written in Java ends up awkward.
Wow, looks like some Java programmer with mod points got triggered. Why should I be surprised? Java programmers tend to have a limited perspective of the world.
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Why do you do that? The market does not exist yet.
Because that's how you get a position on that future market.
No, that's how you die. Relevant words: "before its time". If you want to be in business, you better be satisfying demand that actually exists, or you better have deep pockets to cover your stupidity.
If you want a position in a future market, you start making what that market will bear.
Why do you do that? The market does not exist yet.
Samsung loves both Google and Apple. Google makes them rich with Android and Apple buys chips from them.
The problem is that they're trying to get a chunk of a small market (luxury electric sports cars)...
Actually, they're trying to get a position in a future, gigantic market where everybody, rich and poor, switches to electric. For the time being, they just need a beachhead, much like Tesla with the Roadster.
Once sales slump enough investors will oust him.
That doesn't usually happen. Maybe getting caught with gay porn on his iphone.
All he needs is more courage. This time, remove the screen.
The only thing that you might be able to mark as a regression is the loss of the headphone jack, but that's pretty subjective.
Funny how it seems to be correlated with iphone's loss of market share, don't you think?
What's so "incredible" about a $9 million salary for the CEO of one of the most valuable companies anywhere?
What's incredible about it is, he's a lousy leader.
Tim Cook plays a role at Apple similar to former Monkey-in-Chief Ballmer at Microsoft: castrating it. Hard to see much wrong with that, if you don't have a one-button brain and prefer not to live in a one-button world.
Here's a complete list of ISPs which provide enough bandwidth to watch 4K to my address:
Agree that USA is neolithic when it comes to broadband.
Complete list of 4K movies on Netflix
sure I want one, but I'm not willing to pay more than maybe a 10% price premium to get it.
Same thing as saying you are not an early adopter. The point is, perceived value is there, unlike the 3D feature.
Just as hype, just as fail, for much the same reasons.
Lots of old folks no longer have HD eyes.
The vast majority will see the limitations of 1080 instantly by displaying text, e.g., a web page. Even for movies, intentionally low-frequency in both time and spatial domain, it is just a question of how close you are to the display. As soon as you get close enough to notice the annoying dither patterns, you can't unsee them. Same thing for bigger displays, and everybody is getting bigger displays as the cost continues to fall. So safe bet: what the industry missed out on in 3D adoption, it will make up in 4K adoption. Go ahead, tell me you don't want one.
Am I the only person here who took this long to realize that Tesla cars are powered by...
Pretty much. Your geek card is on probation.
Rebooted my Linux home server the other day, it was up for 475 days and went through multiple updates in that time. Only rebooted it to install a new kernel. This is typical, actually. Linux desktop machine uptimes are usually months, laptops are only rebooted if they run out of power.
Really looks great.. wish there was a ChromeOS* vers...
That's the problem Intel has at the moment: people are looking at these things and thinking "is that like a Chromebook"? And the other problem Intel has is that the cost of the processor alone is 30%+ of the retail price. That's gotta hurt.
Moore's law has been decelerating for a long time but is far from dead. What's really surprising is how far visible light lithography has been pushed, when everybody thought EUV would be needed long ago. Now, feature size is _way_ less than the wavelength, nice trick that. Even less than EUV wavelength. Probably, EUV will be used for 5nm nodes. Nanoimprint might take over when EUV reaches its limits. This is while staying with silicon. A 1 nm transistor (gate size) has already been demonstrated, and it won't stop there.
Ryzen could be a winner. If it gets even close to intel's performance the value will be there.
Because Trump is the top porn site.
that, and Justin Bieber getting old.
STEM topics notably missing from top 5,000. Plate tectonics squeezes in at #4994, transistor at #4839. Probably a few more up higher, but they get vanishingly rare. At least "global warming" is ahead of Play Station 4.
Amazing... Winston Churchill (7,517,385) ahead of Justin Bieber (7,376,207). How can that be? A flickering of intelligence? Nah, must be some other explanation.
And yet, the popular languages today are interpreted languages.
Popularity trumps wisdom?
Before Eclipse became Eclipse it was called Visual Age for Java, implemented in Smalltalk, and it was a joy to use. Capable of some amazing things, like recompiling pieces of a program while running it, and have that all make sense and be natural. When rewritten in Java it became the dreary, plodding thing it is today. Not useless, but soul-sucking. Implementation language had something to do with it? Funny how everything written in Java ends up awkward.
Wow, looks like some Java programmer with mod points got triggered. Why should I be surprised? Java programmers tend to have a limited perspective of the world.